Chapter 127: Principle (2)
For the first time in ages, I spent the night working on something other than research.
“...This world really isn’t normal.”
As I reviewed the data collected and organized by the AI, I muttered those words to myself. Recalling the case of Z City, where illegal human experiments were conducted in secret, it became clear that this world was far from clean. In fact, it might be worse than Earth.
On Earth, discrimination and human experimentation had significantly declined after two world wars that reshaped humanity's understanding of morality. But in this world, where non-humans existed and no transformative global war had occurred, discrimination and unspeakable atrocities still thrived.
I wanted to expose it all, to destroy everything built on this filth, but I suppressed the urge and carefully consolidated the information.
‘First, let’s set up a recursive function...’
The boss’s concern about a certain type of ability-user lingered in my mind. If there really was someone capable of detecting when their information was leaked, there was a way to neutralize them: overwhelm their ability.
By flooding them with an infinite stream of alerts—every second, every minute, every hour—the relentless barrage would drive them mad, forcing them to deactivate their power. Conveniently, I had the perfect tool for such a task: the AI could endlessly send signals to the ability-user, altering its identity each time, like a VPN user spamming memes across forums.
Could anyone withstand tens of thousands of signals per second? If such an ability-user existed, this alone would render them obsolete.
‘As for the rest, it must be hidden offline... No trace of it on the internet.’
Despite the countless pieces of data the AI uncovered, there were still bits of information that couldn’t be found online—details that could only be retrieved through direct, physical investigation. Knowing where to find them, I left the lab and pulled out my smartphone. It had been a while since my last outing, and the locations I had to visit were too dangerous for someone as physically defenseless as me to handle alone.
“I can’t involve any executives; the boss might catch on... I’ll have to call in someone else.”